The psychiatrist, the historian and The Christian Watt Papers

Allan Beveridge (1) , Fiona Watson (2)

1 Queen Margaret Hospital
2 HCTLab - Human Computer Technology Laboratory

The publication in the 1980s of The Christian Watt Papers brought to public attention the life of a previously unknown, long-term inmate of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Christian Watt's story inspired a play and a television documentary. This paper examines what the historical records reveal about Watt's life and how this compares with her own account.

Mots clés: Aberdeen Royal Asylum; Christian Watt; patient account

Allan Beveridge, Fiona Watson. The psychiatrist, the historian and The Christian Watt Papers. History of Psychiatry, 2006, 17 (2), pp.205-221. ⟨10.1177/0957154X06058949⟩. ⟨hal-00570842⟩